After saying goodbye to Li Kaimin, I didn't go to meet Zhen Zhen immediately because I planned to go to Shen Tingyue's dormitory, hoping to learn about her situation from her roommate.
Based on the information provided by Li Kaimin, I found the bedroom where Shen Tingyue lived. When they came to the door of the bedroom, the voices of several girls came out through the door.
"Is that big fat man named Fang Shu really killed by Ting Yue?"
"Impossible, how could Tingyue kill someone? She is usually so quiet and can't even curse loudly, let alone a fat man. I'm afraid she doesn't even have the strength to kill a chicken."
"That's not necessarily. You haven't seen her get angry."
"When did she get angry, I really haven't seen it."
"Yeah, I haven't seen it either."
"That time I got into a fight with her when I was painting, and accidentally broke her painting. She was so angry that her hair almost stood on end, as if she wanted to kill me."
"Then?"
"After that, it's actually nothing, she just pushed me fiercely, and then she stopped talking to me. However, the next day she took the initiative to apologize to me, I was so embarrassed, it was clearly my fault. of."
A few ordinary gossips are commonplace, but they have given me a general understanding of Shen Tingyue's character, so there is no need to continue listening. After all, it is immoral to eavesdrop on other girls' boudoir secrets, so I knocked on the door lightly.
A very energetic girl opened the door for me. After I showed her identity and intention, she told me that her name was Zhao Na, the head of the dormitory and Shen Tingyue's classmate.
Afterwards, I learned about Shen Tingyue's situation from Zhao Na and other roommates in the dormitory, and they told me about Tingyue's person and family background-
Although Tingyue is beautiful, she is a quiet girl. She doesn't talk much outside, and always gives people a cold feeling. The boys in the class gave her the title of "Bingshan Beauty". However, she was quite talkative in the bedroom and talked almost everything with her roommates. Although her family background is not very good, she is not the kind of person who is too inferior, and did not deliberately conceal her family background.
In fact, her life experience is quite pitiful.
Her father made some money by doing business outside, and even learned to take care of his lover. Later, his lover gave him a son, and he simply didn't want their mother and daughter, and divorced her mother when she was ten years old. Over the years, her father has hardly cared about her life or death, and he only occasionally called to ask about her situation, but it was just a greeting. Don't expect him to help solve any situation. Even her tuition fees for attending the Academy of Fine Arts were borrowed from her mother and relatives of her parents' family, and her father never gave her even a dime.
Her mother was not literate, so she raised her by working as a nanny for others, and even offered her to study here. Because her mother's income is not high and her father has not given her any financial support, she is very frugal on weekdays. Fortunately, she is very good in her studies. Not only can she get a scholarship every time, but she also often participates in some small local art exhibitions, which usually yields benefits, and the financial pressure is not too great...
They told Shen Tingyue in great detail, but these were not the information I needed, and they were not very useful for the investigation of this case. What I want to know most is why she disappeared a month ago, and what abnormal behavior she had before disappearing.
"In fact, there is nothing wrong with her. Before she disappeared, she had been preparing to participate in the provincial art exhibition, and she often stayed alone in the studio until late." A girl with long hair said.
"Is this exhibition important?" I asked.
"It's really important to her..." It was Zhao Na who spoke, because she had a good relationship with Shen Tingyue and had a better understanding of this matter, so she mainly told me about the situation-
The reason why Tingyue participated in the art exhibition was on the one hand to get a bonus to continue her studies, so that her mother would not worry about her tuition all day long, and she also hoped that her ability would be affirmed. To be honest, her painting skills are really good, especially in oil painting, each oil painting is very artistic. Every time I paint with her, I feel very discouraged, her painting skills are not at the same level as ours. I think if she hadn't been too young, her work would have sold for sky-high prices.
Maybe you don’t know much about it. The art world is basically ranked according to seniority, and it is not easy for young painters to make a name for themselves. But she doesn't think so. She thinks that gold will always shine, so she often participates in art exhibitions, hoping to meet her Bole in the art exhibition.
However, it is impossible for juniors like us to get admission to large-scale art exhibitions, and can only participate in some small local art exhibitions. She has also sold several works in art exhibitions before, but the price is relatively unsatisfactory, and it can only be regarded as helping to make up for tuition and living expenses. After all, it's a small art exhibition. Most of the people who come here are people who don't understand art. Of course, they won't pay high prices, and no big media will come to interview and report, and buyers from the auction house will not come.
Although it is true, she is not discouraged, she still paints very hard, and continues to participate in various small art exhibitions. It may be that the emperor pays off. A few days ago, she finally got a dream opportunity.
The provincial art exhibition that just ended not long ago was not a well-known large-scale exhibition, but many buyers from auction houses participated, and occasionally some painters became famous overnight through such exhibitions. And most importantly, it is a rare opportunity for us to have the opportunity to participate in the exhibition for unknown newcomers like us.
However, although we also have the opportunity to participate in the exhibition, not everyone can get the admission ticket. Except for some well-known old painters in the province, all art academies in the province will send teachers and students to participate in the exhibition, so the number of places to participate is very limited. There are so many people in our academy, and there are only ten places, and teachers alone have accounted for more than half of the places, and only one of the remaining places is allocated to us this year.
Although the competition for this spot is extremely fierce, as Ting Yue said - gold always shines. Because Tingyue's painting skills are no worse than the teachers, and she has participated in many small art exhibitions before and has rich experience in exhibitions, it can be said that this place is in her hands.
When she knew that she was able to participate in this exhibition, she was of course extremely happy, and she was so excited that she couldn't sleep for several nights. This is not only an opportunity for her to become famous overnight, but also her last chance in her student days, so she is very nervous about it, hoping to come up with a perfect work for the exhibition.
In order to create this perfect exhibition work, she not only started preparations three months before the exhibition, but even went to the studio on the third floor of the old teaching building to paint in order to have a quiet creative environment. Because the old teaching was rumored to be haunted before, no one used it anymore, and no one would stroll there normally. It is indeed not a very quiet place, but it is quite scary at night.
At the beginning, she would pull us over to accompany her, but after a few visits, she became more courageous, and she no longer forced us to go there alone. Because she stayed in the studio until late at night almost every night during this period, so she didn't go back to the dormitory to sleep that night. We thought she stayed in the studio all night! However, the next day we found out that she had disappeared for no apparent reason...
Shen Tingyue attaches so much importance to this exhibition, no matter what the reason is, it is impossible for her to run away without a word. The only explanation, I am afraid, is that something unexpected happened. However, she must have been in the studio before her disappearance, at least within the confines of the academy. What surprises can happen in the college
I asked Zhao Na and others whether there were often missing students in the academy and the security situation nearby. They said that apart from Shen Tingyue, they had not heard rumors of the disappearance of other students. As for the issue of public security, there is no major problem except that there is a small road near the college where people are often robbed at night.
"That path is terrifying. Not only does it have to pass through a deserted cemetery, but robbers are often haunted. I heard that there are many people buried in the cemetery who died inexplicably!" Zhao Na showed a heart-pounding look.
"Will Ting Yue go this way?" I asked.
"No, we don't dare to take this road, even during the day." A girl said.
Zhao Na seemed to have guessed the doubts in my heart and added: "Tingyue usually only leaves the academy if she participates in art exhibitions or goes shopping in the commercial street. And she usually goes out with us, and rarely goes out alone, especially at night. I'll run out alone."
What happened to Shen Tingyue's disappearance
I left the girls' dormitory with this question in mind, and as soon as I walked out the door, I met Zhen Zhen who was not looking very well.
"Why are you sneaking into the girls' dormitory?" She glared at me like a prisoner.
"What do you mean by sneaking in? I entered through the gate openly." I shrugged helplessly, and then asked her what information she got from the mouth of Maiqinghe.
"A Yang is right, this kid really is a lot of nonsense." Although she pretended to be nothing on the surface, her fit and graceful body trembled involuntarily in the process of relaying absurd memories—
When I walked into Mai Qinghe's bedroom, he was curled up under the covers. His roommate told me that since Fang Shu's accident, he has been hiding under the covers and refusing to come out.
I showed him my identity and purpose, but he still hid under the covers and ignored me. When I got angry, I lifted his quilt. As if he couldn't see the light, he immediately retreated to the dark corner at the end of the bed in panic, and held his head in his hands and kept shouting "don't catch me, it's none of my business". I said I was just asking him to ask questions, not to arrest him, but he kept repeating the same words. I had to grab him by the collar and slap him twice in order to be quiet.
(I suddenly felt that it was a wrong decision to ask Zhen Zhen to go to Mai Qinghe for questioning. I hope the other party will not complain about her abuse of violence.)
After he calmed down, I asked again about his intentions, and he told me intermittently about the night of the crime.
He said that he went to KTV with Fang Shu, Li Kaimin and two other classmates that night, and then the three came back together. On the way back to the academy, he seemed to have said something wrong and angered Fang Shu, because he was drunk at the time, and now he can't remember what he said. I only remember that Fang Shu was very angry and wanted to beat him. Fortunately, Li Kaimin helped him. He took it.
When Fang Li was pushing and shoving, he suddenly found a mysterious figure "floating" towards them in the distance. Although "that thing" was a little far from them, he could still recognize at a glance that the other party was Shen Tingyue, who had passed away a month ago.
He was so frightened at the time that he instinctively pointed to the distance and read the other party's name. Fang Shu thought he was frightening him, so he immediately became furious, pushed Kaimin down with brute force, and rushed towards him. Just as Fang Shu grabbed his clothes and was about to beat him up, Kaimin stared into the distance and called out, "Tingyue, it's really Tingyue..."
Fang Shu turned back suddenly, and found that Ting Yue's ghost was "floating" towards them, so frightened that he yelled "Ghost", and then tried his best to escape. He also shouted "run away" to Kai Min who was in a daze, and then he even rolled and crawled to escape with Fang Shu.
Maybe because he drank too much alcohol, his feet felt weak, and he felt weak after just running a few steps. Fortunately, Kai Min, who caught up from behind, helped him and dragged him to escape. Kaimin is a basketball player. He exercises regularly and runs relatively fast. Even if he is dragged, he can run slightly faster than Fang Shu.
Although Kaimin was dragging him to run, he still ran very hard. When he was about to run, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind him. When he turned around, he saw that Tingyue had chased behind Fang Shu, and he and Fang Shuzhi The distance between them is only the length of an arm. He was so frightened that his scalp was about to explode, he immediately gritted his teeth and closed his eyes and ran hard with Kaimin.
A few seconds later, Fang Shu's screams came from behind.
The scream seemed to come from the depths of hell, and he seemed to see Ting Yue with a ferocious face, opening a bloody mouth full of fangs, biting Fang Shu's shoulder fiercely, tearing off the entire shoulder. Even though he closed his eyes tightly, the image of the flesh and blood still clearly emerged in his mind, and the tragic cry was like the sharp fingernails of a ghost, deeply inserted into his heart...
"He can't remember what happened after that, and he doesn't know how he escaped the female ghost's pursuit. I think he was probably frightened." By this time, Zhen Zhen's handsome cheeks were pale. It's hard to find blood, I think she probably completely believed what Mai Qinghe said, although she didn't admit it on the surface.
For the same incident, the two parties said two versions respectively. Although I personally think Li Kaimin's version is more objective and credible, Mai Qinghe's version is not useless to me, because I found a key point. Sexual doubts - why is he sure that Shen Tingyue is dead
This coward must know some secrets, so I decided to go to him myself, hoping to get a clue from him.